Greeley city IT employee charged with possessing child sexual abuse material
By: | Published: 2025-06-18 16:16:00 | Source: www.denverpost.com
A man accused of sexual exploitation of children appears to have stolen Greeley Police Department hard drives that contained child sexual abuse material while working for the city of Greeley information technology department.
Jacob Schmidt, 35, faces eight counts of sexual exploitation of a child, according to Colorado court records. City officials declined to answer questions about his employment status.
Last July, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a tip in connection with Schmidt after he uploaded two files containing child sexual abuse material to the Verizon cloud from his cellphone, according to an affidavit for his arrest.
A Weld County Sheriff’s Office detective began investigating Schmidt in late February after receiving a report about him from…